Press Releases
November 2, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit and a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, made the following statement on the first Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent killed in the line of duty, Gerardo I. Hernandez.
November 1, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama yesterday signed a bill reauthorizing the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) for five years, ensuring continuation of the agency with jurisdiction over D.C. Code felons on parole or supervised release.
October 31, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today announced Senate passage of a bill to reauthorize the U.S. Parole Commission (USPC) for five years, ensuring continuation of the agency with jurisdiction over D.C. Code felons on parole or under supervised release. Norton pressed for a minimum five-year reauthorization to provide greater certainty and consistency for the Commission to function rather than its prior two-year reauthorizations. The bill now goes to the President for his signature.
October 30, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) yesterday got language included in the FEMA Reauthorization Act of 2013 committee report to keep the Office of National Capital Region Coordination (ONCRC) in the National Capital Region, which includes the District of Columbia and several surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia.
October 28, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today wrote a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry requesting that the online instructions for the Diversity Visa Program be translated into French immediately, considering that the submission deadline is this Saturday, November 2. Norton learned from constituents last Friday that program instructions on the State Department’s website are translated into 14 languages, but not French.
October 28, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – On national television yesterday, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said that, according to reports, the District of Columbia is one of only four jurisdictions, along with three states, that had a successful launch of its health care exchange, DC Health Link, on October 1.
October 28, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – With less than 20 days of Congress scheduled to be in session before the end of the year, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will hold a Norton in Your Neighborhood with the Ward 5 Democrats at the Michigan Park Christian Church (1600 Taylor Street NE), from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. In the context of the end of the year and what comes next, Norton will brief residents on congressional issues affecting them, including the provision she won, in the bill signed to reopen the federal government, that allows D.C. to spend its local funds for the full fiscal year while the federal government must function on a three-month continuing resolution.
October 25, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will speak before helping to lead thousands of D.C.-area residents in the Whitman-Walker Clinic's 27th annual AIDS Walk tomorrow, Saturday, October 26, 2013, starting at Freedom Plaza (13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW) at 8:30 a.m.
October 24, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will receive the "Local Heroine" award and offer brief remarks at the Washington Blade's annual Best of Gay D.C. reader's poll event this evening from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at the Huxley (1730 M Street NW).
October 23, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today hailed the appointment of Lorraine Miller as interim president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She is the first woman to hold the position. Norton has worked closely with Miller, who served as a top aide to three House Speakers – Jim Wright, Tom Foley and Nancy Pelosi – and as former president of the NAACP Washington, D.C. Branch.